SoTL Showcase

Curious about SoTL at Cortland? Have a SoTL project in progress or published? Join us for the SoTL Showcase, a casual poster session and round-table gathering celebrating the faculty across campus who are researching teaching and learning in their own classrooms.

Drop in whenever works for you to peruse posters, engage in round-table chats with presenters, and brainstorm collaborations with colleagues who share your curiosity. Projects at every stage are welcome, from early ideas to published studies. There will be plenty of space to mingle, and plenty of refreshments to make it your afternoon coffee and snack break.

Have a SoTL project in progress or published? 

We'd love to feature it in the showcase! We're inviting faculty to share their classroom research, at any stage. This is an informal, low-stakes space, less a conference presentation and more a chance to share your work, get feedback, and meet potential collaborators. To be featured, submit the above form!

So...What is SoTL?

SoTL, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, is research where your classroom is your research site and your students are the participants. SoTL starts with something you notice in your teaching (an activity that seems to click, an assignment students consistently struggle with, a shift after a course redesign), turns it into a question, and uses evidence from your course to explore it.

SoTL draws on methods from every discipline, such as surveys, analysis of student work, reflections, focus groups, and comparisons across sections. And yes, you can publish it! You don't need to be an education researcher to do SoTL; you just need a question about your teaching that you care about.